ionic: issues deploying to device

Skrivet av Richard Gustavsson

We ran into the issue where all our ionic projects were failing to deploy on physical iOS devices.

The command we usually run, `ionic cap run ios -l —external` didn’t want to work anymore.
The command itself didn’t fail - it was in fact telling us that the app has been deployed to the device.

[capacitor] ✔ Deploying App.app to 00008030-000E71081480802E in 752.53ms
[INFO] App deployed to device!
Development server will continue running until manually stopped.
Use Ctrl+C to quit this process

Our ionic stack:

Ionic CLI : 6.20.8 (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@ionic/cli)
Ionic Framework : @ionic/angular 6.5.3
@angular-devkit/build-angular : 15.0.4
@angular-devkit/schematics : 15.0.4
@angular/cli : 15.0.4
@ionic/angular-toolkit : 7.0.0

Capacitor CLI : 4.6.3
@capacitor/android : 4.6.3
@capacitor/core : 4.6.3
@capacitor/ios : 4.6.3

cordova-res : not installed globally
native-run : 1.7.1

System:

NodeJS : v18.12.1 (/usr/local/bin/node)
npm : 9.4.0
OS : macOS

Solution

We simply downgraded from node 18/19 to the latest node 16.X version.
Annoying? Indeed!

Downgrading on mac is fairly simple. Just follow the steps given here.

Richard Gustavsson